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COPYRIGHT 2001 Transaction Publishers, Inc.
Edited by Charles Hirshman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. xiv + 502 pp. $65.00.
The Handbook of International Migration is a product of the conference "Becoming American/America Becoming: International Migration to the United States," organized in 1996 by the Committee on International Migration of the Social Science Research Council. This extensive overview of the state of (im)migration theory and research in America is organized around three questions: (1) What motivates people to migrate across international boundaries, often at great financial and psychological cost? (2) How are immigrants changed after arrival? and (3) What impacts do immigrants have on American life and its economic, sociocultural, and political institutions? The organization of the volume around these research questions "represents [the editors'] vision of how the field should be framed and organized for cumulative empirical research" (p. 7). The question about the mechanisms of international migration is addressed in part 1, "Theories and Concepts of International Migration." It contains six essays: Alejandro Portes...
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